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Artifacts Used by Chinese Transcontinental Railroad Workers Found in Utah
Researchers discovered the remains of a mid-19th century house, a centuries-old Chinese coin and other traces of the short-lived town of Terrace.
by
Livia Gershon
via
Smithsonian
on
October 26, 2021
Is L.A. Ready to Remember the 1871 Chinese Massacre?
Long buried, the 1871 Chinese Massacre surfaces amid a significant anniversary and a new wave of violence.
by
Michael Woo
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Zócalo Public Square
on
October 24, 2021
“We’ve Always Had Activists in Our Communities”
May Ngai uses her experiences as an activist in the 1980s and her research on the 19th century Chinese diaspora to debunk stereotypes about Chinese Americans.
by
Mae Ngai
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Jilene Chua
via
Public Books
on
October 13, 2021
A Pacific Gold Rush
On the roads and seas miners traveled to reach gold in the United States and Australia.
by
Mae Ngai
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
August 25, 2021
The Anti-Asian Roots of Today’s Anti-Immigrant Politics
Long before Trump, politicians on the country’s West Coast mobilized a white working-class base through violent hate of Chinese and Japanese immigrants.
by
Mari Uyehara
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The Nation
on
August 9, 2021
California’s Vigilante Tradition
The far-right protestors in Huntington Beach aren’t as novel as they seem.
by
Kevin Waite
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
July 23, 2021
The Surprising Reason Why Chinatowns Worldwide Share the Same Aesthetic
It all started with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
by
Josh Jones
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Open Culture
on
May 19, 2021
The Bloody History of Anti-Asian Violence in the West
One of the largest mass lynchings in the United States targeted Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles.
by
Kevin Waite
via
National Geographic
on
May 10, 2021
The Forgotten History of the Campaign to Purge Chinese from America
The surge in violence against Asian-Americans is a reminder that America’s present reality reflects its exclusionary past.
by
Michael Luo
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The New Yorker
on
April 22, 2021
Racism Has Always Been Part of the Asian American Experience
If we don’t understand the history of Asian exclusion, we cannot understand the racist hatred of the present.
by
Mae Ngai
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The Atlantic
on
April 21, 2021
Karate, Wonton, Chow Fun: The End of 'Chop Suey' Fonts
For years, the West has relied on so-called 'chop suey' fonts to communicate "Asianness" in food packaging, posters and ad campaigns.
by
Anne Quito
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CNN
on
April 7, 2021
The California Klan’s Anti-Asian Crusade
Whereas southern Klansmen assaulted Black Americans and their white allies, western vigilantes targeted those they deemed a greater threat: Chinese immigrants.
by
Kevin Waite
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The Atlantic
on
April 6, 2021
The 16-Year-Old Chinese Immigrant Who Helped Lead a 1912 US Suffrage March
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee fought for the rights of women on two sides of the world.
by
Michael Lee
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HISTORY
on
March 19, 2021
Frederick Douglass and the American Project
It would be hard to blame him if he had lost faith in the republic.
by
Richard Hughes Gibson
via
The Hedgehog Review
on
February 22, 2021
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"It Has Not Been My Habit to Yield"
Charles Sumner and the fight for equal naturalization rights.
by
Lucy E. Salyer
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HNN
on
July 5, 2020
A Campaign of Forced Self-Deportation
The history of anti-Chinese violence in Truckee, California, is as old as the town itself.
by
Adam Goodman
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
July 1, 2020
When Chinese Americans Were Blamed for 19th-Century Epidemics, They Built Their Own Hospital
The Chinese Hospital in San Francisco is still one-of-a-kind.
by
Laureen Hom
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Claire Wang
via
Atlas Obscura
on
April 13, 2020
What We Lost in the Museum of Chinese in America Fire
The question remains whether spaces like MOCA will remain vibrant in a future where notions of community grow more abstract.
by
Hua Hsu
via
The New Yorker
on
January 27, 2020
Who Was Tank Kee?
He wanted to be an ally of the Chinese immigrant. By pretending to be one himself.
by
Christopher Decou
via
Contingent
on
October 28, 2019
Jenny Zhang on Reading Little Women and Wanting to Be Like Jo March
Looking to Louisa May Alcott's heroine for inspiration.
by
Jenny Zhang
via
Literary Hub
on
August 23, 2019
Remembering the Forgotten Chinese Railroad Workers
Archaeologists help modern descendants of Chinese railroad workers in Utah commemorate their ancestors' labor and lives.
by
Veronica Peterson
via
Sapiens
on
August 22, 2019
Remapping LA
Before California was West, it was North and it was East: an arrival point for both Mexican and Chinese immigrants.
by
Carolina A. Miranda
via
Guernica
on
February 19, 2019
Take an Immigrant’s Journey
Follow the paths of eight immigrants, whose stories are based on real laws and historically documented scenarios.
by
Grainne McEvoy
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Dan Zedek
,
Yan Wu
via
Experience
on
October 24, 2018
Oregon’s Racist Past
Until the mid-20th century, Oregon was perhaps the most racist place outside the southern states, possibly even of all the states.
by
Linda Gordon
via
Longreads
on
July 12, 2018
The Tacoma Method
How the Chinese community of Tacoma, Washington Territory was violently expelled in 1885, and what happened next.
by
Andrew Gomez
via
University Of Puget Sound
on
May 1, 2018
How Childhoods Spent in Chinese Laundries Tell the Story of America
The laundry: a place to play, grow up, and live out memories both bitter and sweet.
by
Eveline Chao
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Atlas Obscura
on
January 3, 2018
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Don’t Count on the Supreme Court to Stop Trump’s Travel Ban
Chinese exclusion in the 19th century exposes the limits of the justices' power.
by
Katy Long
via
Made By History
on
July 5, 2017
When Immigrants Are No Longer Considered Americans
The history of immigrants in the U.S. teaches that no amount of assimilation will protect you when an alien requires conjuring.
by
Hua Hsu
via
The New Yorker
on
February 15, 2017
When Americans Thought Hair Was a Window Into the Soul
Christian, criminal or cowardly? People once thought your hair could hold the answer.
by
Sarah Gold McBride
via
The Conversation
on
April 20, 2016
The Hunt for General Tso
The origins of Chinese-American dishes, and the spots where these two cultures have combined to form a new cuisine.
by
Jennifer 8 Lee
via
TED
on
July 1, 2008
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